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> Society can hardly intervene in every individual's self destruction. But it cannot allow drugs which are not useful for anything BUT self destruction. Why not? Should I not be pe…

Doesn't Reader automatically infer which parts of the page to style rather than just applying a custom stylesheet?

In a phrase: "does this just go into my iTunes then?". A large majority of Apple's customers presumably doesn't care about anything you mention, given by the simplicity of the iTun…

IIRC most of these bugs arise because of things that should be available while the device is unlocked: the dialler and camera for example. Camera is supposed to restrict gallery ac…

Scientific publishing isn't just about putting stuff somewhere for people to read it. Publishers, through their parasitic relationship with academia, have kept themselves relevant …

On a similar thread, Julian Bangert and Sergey Bratus have an implementation of the game of life that performs its computation on the MMU using traps[1] that technically uses 0 x86…

> Words cannot express how much of an impact this OS would have had if the amount of time and resources dedicated to Linux, which is yet another UNIX clone in an age where 4-year C…

The other companion to this work (recovering COS disk images) is worth a read too [1]. Someone picked up where Chris left off and managed to get the images booting in an emulator […

Isn't the point of dynamically loading content to reduce the perceived waiting time though? I wonder if focus on cleanly showing the user the page is rendering might be better plac…

Scrollbars aren't but they still show on a scroll event (unless I'm mistaken - I'm only using 10.8).

Travis Goodspeed gave a talk at 29c3 about forensic-resistant thumbdrives [1]. The idea is that the host OS can be fingerprinted by the pattern of reads it makes; the drive can ret…

For anyone wanting to liberate their data from here, paste this into the JS console with the history page open (only tested in Chrome): var time = time=new Date("2010/01/01").getTi…

There'll never be a way of filtering it correctly (is ASCII art of sex acts posted to reddit porn?) so the only real option is ensure people are aware of the risks (whatever they m…

Is a government mandated filter the best way to allow parents to go beyond just educating their children? As a childless person who isn't petrified of naked people, why should I pa…

Mission creep is a concern I have with this though. It's a short jump to go from optional blocking to mandatory blocking (as we already have with CleanFeed). The proposal is for it…

In one out of the one trials I've expected OSX to automatically set the clock ("automatically change time zone") it hasn't. This touches on to the relevant point of DST. I no longe…

The attack could compromise other servers yes. I think the scenario you describe is a possibility, although there are some technical feats that would make wide-scale exploitation d…

Britain already has a mostly mandatory filter designed to save it from child pornography. Cleanfeed is run by the Internet Watch Foundation who look for images of abuse and put it …

The same's true of mining equipment used to pull worthless diamonds out of the earth and the pollution it creates. The "problem" is the pointless mining generates valuable stuff in…

This is the flaw with the analogy, as with all analogies that try to map meatspace to the internet. It would probably make sense to say that the book has been left in an apparently…

I'd analogise it to an open book in a public space. The information is there for you to see when you walk up to it, and you have to interact with it (turning the page) to see the o…

Do you think your experiences are typical? I get that MS does have some good offerings but at the same time I think the average consumer's perception isn't as good as it could be. …

Adjusting that for inflation, it's worth approximately 70% of that (based on 43% cumulative inflation 1998-2013).

In the UK universities' research output are assessed by HEFCE using the "Research Excellence Framework" (which replaced the Research Assessment Exercise) [1]. Sadly, it suffers the…

I believe the concern was that it ran on GPUs (mining on CPUs hasn't been cost-effective for quite some time). Since GPUs are rarely run constantly and don't see loads like mining …